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Kytyevich, Deborah

Kytyevich, Deborah

Daughter of Yeruham Rotenberg, worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Married and raised her husband’s son. Three years before her fall, her husband was killed when he fell from a building while working as a construction worker. Deborah fell in a convoy of scientists, doctors and Hadassah workers who went up to Mount Scopus on April 13, 1948. The road to Mount Scopus passed through the Arab Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and when the war broke out, The convoy was attacked by an Arab ambush in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and hundreds of Arabs set fire to it on the morning of April 13, 1948. Some of the vehicles managed to escape. But two buses, an ambulance and a escort vehicle were ambushed, and for many hours the convoy members fought and tried to prevent the Arabs from approaching the vehicles. In the afternoon, the Arabs managed to set fire to two buses on their passengers, and only in the late evening did the British intervene and rescue the soldiers. The survivors of the trapped vehicles were brought to rest in the cemetery in Sanhedria in Jerusalem

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